Services
Services Offered

*Counseling * Spiritual Direction * Spiritual Direction Supervision

Rev. Megan Wagner, M.A. I am happy to offer counseling, spiritual direction and supervision both in person and over the phone. I make phone appointments with clients who live out of state and overseas in England. My approach is holistic and utilizes a variety of modalities listed below.

Counseling / Spiritual Direction
For twenty years I have been practicing therapy and spiritual direction in a number of settings, including a holistic therapy center specializing in integration of body, mind, spirit, private practice in London, England and recently spiritual direction here in California. My clinical experience includes:

  • Family Systems treatment for families and couples
  • Psychodynamic and analytic treatment for adults recovering from emotional and sexual abuse, substance abuse, eating disorders, anxiety and depression
  • Spiritual Direction for people seeking a holistic approach to healing
  • Specialty in helping clergy and religious professionals

Group Work
For twenty years I have been facilitating a variety of groups including group therapy, gestalt therapy, marriage enrichment, dream groups and personal transformation groups in Crete, Africa, England and the USA. I was Co-Director of Cornerstone Counseling in London, England where I facilitated 25 therapists exploring themes of Transpersonal Psychology, religious stories, myths and fairy tales, sacred art and dreams. I now run Tree of Life Training, guiding students, clients and groups to greater health and wholeness, using a dynamic blend of Western therapy and the creative arts of drumming, chanting, storytelling and ritual.

Clinical Supervision
I have had three years of Family Systems supervision, three years of Psychodynamic supervision and nine years of Analytic supervision with a child and adult Analyst in London, England. I am also trained to be a Spiritual Direction Supervisor.
Personal Jungian Analysis
I have had twelve years of intensive personal analysis, three with an Analyst from the Jung Institute of Los Angeles and nine with an Analyst from the Society of Analytic Psychology in London, England.
Education
BA Stanford University MA Marriage and Family Therapy, MA Theology, Fuller Theological Seminary, Pasadena, CA.
 Ordained Interfaith Minister, The Chaplaincy Institute for Arts and Interfaith Ministries, Berkeley, CA.


Weddings

Rev. Jim Larkin, M.Div. and Rev. Megan Wagner, M.A. Jim and Megan are both Ordained Interfaith Ministers and are delighted to offer both traditional and non-traditional wedding services. We can perform wedding ceremonies together as a couple or separately as individuals. We have been married for 23 years and understand and appreciate the sacred rite of marriage. Our aim is to tailor the kind of wedding that best fits your needs. We enjoy meeting with couples ahead of time, planning the service and making your wedding a most memorable sacred ceremony. Our basic package is $500, which typically includes 2-3 planning meetings, the rehearsal and the wedding ceremony itself. Pre-marital counseling is available as well.


Personal Ceremonies

Rev. Megan Wagner, M.A. Megan has years of experience facilitating women's rites of passage and has been leading groups of women to Crete since 1995. She has performed ceremonies for significant birthdays, healing after divorce, birth celebrations, memorials, grief rituals, house blessing and cleansing, reconciliation and many other personal rites of passage for her clients. Both Megan and Jim are open to creating and facilitating whatever personal ceremony you need.

Rev. Jim Larkin, M.Div. Jim has years of experience in the Men's Movement and has helped facilitate and drum at many rites of passage ceremonies especially tailored for men. He also performs baby naming or baby dedication ceremonies, memorials and works with Megan facilitating personal rituals and rites of passage.



Live Performances with Megan's Sacred Robes

The Initiation Journey:
A sacred art performance with music, dance and ceremonial robes

This live performance celebrates the soul's journey through 7 stages of life and is designed to facilitate groups of people through the initiation journey using ancient initiation techniques of drumming, chanting, sacred dance and ritual. The performance itself lasts 35 minutes and ends with an interactive ritual (sharing bread and wine and/or circle dancing) lasting 15-20 minutes. We typically begin the performance singing multicultural sacred chants with audience participation.

The Initiation Journey celebrates our victories and struggles as we move through 7 different stages of life, from birth through transformation and rebirth to our true, radiant nature. The journey is told by the 7 figures depicted on the 7 Sacred Robes, which are revealed one-by-one as the initiation journey progresses. During each dramatic piece you will hear the robe figure speak through verse, drum, song and movement. Each design on the robes, each drumbeat, chant and dance has been created to facilitate the 7-stage journey and open each of the 7 chakras or centers of consciousness on the Kabbalistic Tree of Life.

  • Performed frequently around the San Francisco Bay Area (see events schedule)
  • Available for group facilitation
  • Promotion Video available - approx. 13 minutes